Roger Adams

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American organic chemist (1889-1971)

United States ScientistsLived 1889 to 1971 · aged 82

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Languages16

In century#59,789

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Awards 14

1964National Medal of Science

1964American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal

1961Golden Plate Award

1960Franklin Medal

1958Charles Lathrop Parsons Award

1954Perkin Medal

1953August Wilhelm von Hofmann Medal

1946Priestley Medal

1946Remsen Award

1945Davy Medal

1944Elliott Cresson Medal

1936Willard Gibbs Award

1927William H. Nichols Medal

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Connected to Roger 6

Zhenan BaoAlso won Willard Gibbs Award

Marye Anne FoxAlso won Charles Lathrop Parsons Award

Herman FraschAlso won Perkin Medal George C. PimentelAlso won Priestley Medal

Kyriakos Costa NicolaouAlso won William H. Nichols Medal

Richard B. MellonAlso won American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal

About this person

Roger Adams was an American organic chemist who developed the eponymous Adams' catalyst, and helped determine the composition of natural substances such as complex vegetable oils and plant alkaloids. He isolated and identified CBD and Δ8-Tetrahydrocannabinol in 1940. As head of the Chemistry department at the University of Illinois from 1926 to 1954, he influenced graduate education in America, taught over 250 Ph.D. students and postgraduate students, and served in military science during World War I and World War II.

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